Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recollection as a great experience. Veteran scribes of the theatre, comparing notes, decided that, on the whole, it was the worst thing they had ever seen in a first-line Broadway playhouse. The plot dealt with a girl who substituted herself for a harlot when her lover tried to take an evening off. So thoroughly ludicrous was the enterprise that the audience hooted with amusement. This has happened, in moderation, before. Never before has one of the actors in a piece actually broken down and laughed at the fatuity of his own lines...
...alluring advertisements are giving Shakespeare a popularity he has never enjoyed before. Eleanor Glyn, Robert Service, and all the other pygmies who mistake an anthill for Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
...individually and in his group, intends to do about it, what shape his life will take, his life as a producer of wealth, as a friend of men and women, as the father of a family, as a citizen as a member of clubs and teams, as a lover of good literature or of any other art, as one curious about nature's handiwork and the globe we live...
...plutocrat tossed his gold watch (Waltham) into the arena. An animal lover contributed two cats, one live and one dead, followed by a tooth brush. An hospitable Freshman made a present of his door key. Others gave Sixteen Necco wafers and a bottle of soda mints. Among the remaining contributions were one cigar, one lump of sugar, one Boston garter, five beads, one cake of soap, one pipe, one safety pin, and large quantities of assorted fruit, most of which was far beyond its prime...
...possesses humor and imagination. Whether she has the irresistible something that makes the great popular heroines is difficult to say. Yet any picture in which she plays can't be entirely bad. Chickie is a fair example. She is a young stenographer who quarrels with her lawyer lover...